Dubai Crystal Mineral Water and Refreshments has installed the Sidel Matrix Combi at its Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point and ISO certified business with manufacturing and distribution facilities in Iran and United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the Crystal and Hatta Mineral Water brands.
The Sidel Matrix Combi will help the Emirati bottler to produce polyethylene terephthalate (PET) water bottles in 330ml and 500ml formats at a speed of 22,500 bottles per hour (bph) and 1.5l format at a speed of 16,000bph.
Along with the Sidel Matrix Combi system, the bottler will integrate Sidel’s recently launched Sidel StarLite base packaging technology which gives added durability, stability, and overall resistance to the PET bottles.
It offers a more energy efficient method of production, allowing producers to achieve significant savings on energy and the amount of PET used in the overall production process.
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The Sidel Matrix Combi system integrates the blow-fill-cap function in one single enclosure, with neck-handling and positive transfer of bottles, which avoids limitations imposed by air conveyors.
It brings together all the benefits of blowing and filling innovations in an integrated solution that delivers energy efficiency while cutting costs.
The machine offers savings in raw materials with light or ultra-lightweight bottles, as well as reduced consumption of air, water, chemicals and energy.
The beverage sector is expected to continue growing in the UAE across various categories.
In 2014, Sidel says the consumption of water, the most consumed beverage item, stood at around 1.05 billion liters and is due to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 6.5% over the next four years to reach 1.35 billion liters by 2018.
